Barbara Taves

LOVE COMES AS A SHADE OF PURPLE

I want to share something with you that happened a few days ago.

I was praying and then I stopped and I said, “No, God, I don’t want to babble on and on. I want you to talk to me. I want to listen to you. So I became real real quiet and then there was this silence. It was very silent. A different type of silence than I have ever known.

Then I heard the words, “I love you.” My eyes were closed but out of the darkness came the words in a visual form. They came out into the air looking like a tongue depressor, a dark brown tongue depressor and it didn’t physically say “I love you” but the essence of it was that “I love you.” And they twisted kind of. They twisted like a flirty type of twist or something, a little like being coy or something and it was just so wonderful and quiet and I soaked it in and enjoyed it and kept waiting because I was hungry to hear what else He would say and then it turned the most brilliant purple.

This was like nothing I have ever seen. It was the most glorious purple I have ever known. It had such a bright and beautiful warmth. A loving purple and then this black lace appeared and kind of laid down on top of the purple and the purple still was brilliant and came through and it was gorgeous. It wasn’t lace like we know it. It was intricate lace with every thread being different. There were no repetitions of the same pattern or anything like that. Everything was different and it was incredibly beautiful. I just looked and looked and I just couldn’t absorb it all.

And then I had the thought, “Well, I wonder if there’s a purple light coming through my window and that is where the purple is coming from?”

So I real fast opened up my eyes and there was no purple light outside or anything that would cause the purple sensation.

I closed my eyes again but the lace had disappeared. The purple was there but not as bright and it wasn’t as beautiful and it was kind of fading away. I just was very quiet and felt engulfed by this beautiful fading purple that was God’s love to me. It was so beautiful! So beautiful!

That is the silliest thing ever, isn’t is? But I never have experienced anything like it and will always cherish this special moment with God.